Black lettering tattoo of an infinity symbol joined to the word strength in script, on the lower back of a woman.

Infinity symbol with strength script

Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a black infinity symbol with the word strength written in cursive script beside it, placed on the lower back. The infinity loop has a bold outline with soft shading inside, while the lettering is in a thinner, flowing black line. A hand rests on the skin at the left, and a white garment sits at the waistband below the tattoo.

Lettering Back Infinity symbol Strength Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cord had been cut twice before the bride's mother thought to take up the wool again. Nobody in Tollbridge could agree which cut had been worse: the one the wind made, tearing the ribbon from the lych gate, or the one the miller's boy made out of spite, saying a wedding tied with bought string would never hold.

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Old Marjory Kell had spun the cord herself from fleece off her own ewes and sat on the churchyard wall with her needles going while the others argued. She had been married under the same loop forty-one years back, and her husband had been dead nine of them. "It isn't the cord that holds," she said, and when nobody listened she held up the knot she had made. It ran round two fingers and came back to where it started, the way a figure eight does when you trace it slowly with a finger. "Strength is only going round again," she said.

They married under it at last, the cord passed round both their wrists and crossed over, then round again. Marjory told the bride to keep moving her hand through the loop and never stop at the crossing, because stopping was where a marriage frayed. The bride laughed and said that sounded like a long road to walk.

Years later the miller's boy, grown and grey, came to the same wall with a cut length of rope in his pocket and asked how she had known her knot would outlast the cutting. Marjory said she hadn't. She had only known that a thing which goes round is harder to pull apart than one which ends, and that a thing you can start again from the crossing is never quite finished breaking.